I still haven’t received my Raspberry Pi board, but there have been a couple of interesting Raspberry Pi software news this week.

Raspberry Pi Debian Wheezy “Alpha”

This is an update to Raspberry Pi Debian Squeeze 6.0, based on Wheezy (Debian 7.0) and the maintainer (Alex) is looking for volunteer to help test it and iron it out, before the Raspberry Pi foundation officially announce the distribution on its blog.

Raspberry Pwn: A pentesting release for the Raspberry Pi

Pwnie Express has announced the release of Raspberry Pwn, a hacker security penetration testing and auditing platform. This open source tools includes over 50 tools such as aircrack-ng, dsniff, wireshark, hping3, fcrackzip, sipcrack…

To install it, all you need if Raspberry Pi Debian 6.0 or above with ssh and git and type those 2 commands:

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git clonehttps://github.com/pwnieexpress/Raspberry-Pwn.git

cdRaspberry-Pwn

./INSTALL_raspberry_pwn.sh

For details on the installation procedure, you can check the README file on github.
If you don’t know how to use those tools, and what to check whether your server or connected device is secure to make sure they are less likely to be accessed by hackers, have a look at the documentation of Pwnie Express Pwn Plug which includes examples, and/or visit check their community support forums.